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Continuation of eye integration study:

Reflection Integration

One of my favorite things about the recent Star Wars movies is the attention to eye reflections for stronger integration of effects - bright effects would reflect in eyes and curve along the eye’s surface:

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Something that I learned after another viewing of The Last Jedi was the integration of the beam from the blaster in Holdo’s eye. It isn’t something that I would automatically expect to be there. It adds an extra 1% of integration.

Eyeline Integration

The last concept is for integrating CGI is eye lines. This seems very simple, but I didn’t know how crucial eyelines were to a shot until I learned their importance at ILM. Realistic modeling, texturing, animation, lighting, and comp can’t save a shot if the real character’s eyeline to the CGI is not spot on. This is especially true when the CGI in focus moves in the scene.

A real example from La La Land for a correct, moving eye line



I had so much fun digging deeper into eye integration and the reading that came along with it. A fun read was learning about pupils in nature and how their shape is related to the animal’s food chain status and height off the ground:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/08/07/430149677/eye-shapes-of-the-animal-world-hint-at-differences-in-our-lifestyles